The WICKED Root & Debris GRAPPLE!!!!!!!

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Wicked Rip & Grip, baby! It's a one-two unch:
Travis

snowback shows off a little of both right here with his 60" Wicked single lid and Mahindra 2538.

 

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Dump it down about like this, push forward, and the rip is outstanding!

Kubota L3301 with a 50" Wicked.

With the right soil conditions, it's like a hot knife in butter!

 

[4570Man]

Re: The WICKED Root & Debris GRAPPLE!!!!!!!

Grip.. Easier to keep a root in position while you curl or lift to rip it. Without the teeth the root will just slip either forwards out of the grapple or back into the grapple belly and be more difficult to break.

Why do you prefer straight?

Because it's harder to dump. It's nearly impossible to get fencing out and sometimes they interfere with a quick dump on a burning pile.

 

[IslandTractor]

Re: The WICKED Root & Debris GRAPPLE!!!!!!!

Because it's harder to dump. It's nearly impossible to get fencing out and sometimes they interfere with a quick dump on a burning pile.

I can see that. The teeth on my grapple are not as sharp or severe as the laser cut EA teeth. My grapple teeth don't point backwards either.

I like teeth on the bottom tines but I suppose you could grind them down so as to be less aggressive.

 

[Sysop]

You are sorta right; if you are simply trying to dump, at times stuff will hang on the teeth.

I've personally found that setting the grapple down on the pile at nearly the same angle as above and dragging back, will drag most small stuff free of the teeth. Setting it down on the pile tends to push the small stuff up out of the teeth, so when backing up, ya back right out of whatever tangled mess ya got up front. Takes no time to master.

The tine design is one of the big reasons to go with EA, they are masterfully done. Aggressive enough to shred small roots, gusseting is done in a way that works with the tool rather than against it, and they're not bad about packing full of unwanted crap and carrying it around.

 

[Xfaxman]

Re: The WICKED Root & Debris GRAPPLE!!!!!!!

---------------- I much prefer straight.

-----------------Why do you prefer straight?

Because it's harder to dump. It's nearly impossible to get fencing out and sometimes they interfere with a quick dump on a burning pile.

I can see that. The teeth on my grapple are not as sharp or severe as the laser cut EA teeth. My grapple teeth don't point backwards either.

I like teeth on the bottom tines but I suppose you could grind them down so as to be less aggressive.

I agree with preferring no teeth. In the 4 years that I have had the Monster Grapple with teeth I have never used it for pulling roots or anything that needed the teeth. But almost every time I dump a load of brush, some small stuff hangs on the teeth and I have to shake it or drag it on the ground, to get it off.

I planed on grinding the teeth into points, but didn't do it yet.

My small six tine grapple is smooth, no teeth at all and works much better for me.

 

[4570Man]

You are sorta right; if you are simply trying to dump, at times stuff will hang on the teeth.

I've personally found that setting the grapple down on the pile at nearly the same angle as above and dragging back, will drag most small stuff free of the teeth. Setting it down on the pile tends to push the small stuff up out of the teeth, so when backing up, ya back right out of whatever tangled mess ya got up front. Takes no time to master.

The tine design is one of the big reasons to go with EA, they are masterfully done. Aggressive enough to shred small roots, gusseting is done in a way that works with the tool rather than against it, and they're not bad about packing full of unwanted crap and carrying it around.

I managed to overcome the issue, but I never found a use that the teeth worked better for. So the question here was why do they exist.

 

[Sysop]

They're great when grubbing multiflora rose roots around here.

 

[Cataclysm]

Re: The WICKED Root & Debris GRAPPLE!!!!!!!

Grip.. Easier to keep a root in position while you curl or lift to rip it. Without the teeth the root will just slip either forwards out of the grapple or back into the grapple belly and be more difficult to break.

Why do you prefer straight?

Same here, the teeth add a lot of grip on roots/limbs.

 

[Cataclysm]

Re: The WICKED Root & Debris GRAPPLE!!!!!!!

Because it's harder to dump. It's nearly impossible to get fencing out and sometimes they interfere with a quick dump on a burning pile.

I have found that rolling the grapple down all the way and the lids completely open almost always dumps well. With fencing I do the same thing plus lower the bucket so the fencing drags along the top of the pile to help unload it. Works pretty well so far.